Travel time matrix and employment statistics for Edmonton Metropolitan Area.

A data frame with origin-destination pairs, travel time by transit, and population and employment by Census Dissemination Area. Census Dissemination Areas (DAs) are the smallest publicly available geography provided by Statistics Canada. Travel times are for a representative day in two different years: 2019 (pre-covid measures) and 2023 (post-covid measures) from the centroid of the origin DA to the centroid of the destination DA. Times are calculated as the median of all times within a 15 minutes window of the departure.

Usage

data(travel_matrix_emp_edm)

Format

A data frame with 2,057,486 rows and 9 variables:

from_id: Unique identifier of the Dissemination Area of the zone of origin
to_id: Unique identifier of the Dissemination Area of the zone of destination
travel_time_p50: Median travel time in minutes by transit within a 15 minute window of the time of departure of 8:00 am
region: Identifier of the region: "edm" for Edmonton
start_year: Year for which travel time was calculated
start_datetime: Date and time of departure for a trip that originates at the Dissemination Area of origin
study_region_name: Name of the Census Metropolitan Area (CMA)
Population: Total population in the Dissemination Area of origin (2016 Census)
Total_Emp: Total employment in the Dissemination Area of destination (2016 Census)

Source

Population: Canada Census 2016. See: https://mountainmath.github.io/cancensus/index.html

Employment: Statistics Canada

Travel times: calculated based on General Transit Feed Standard and OpenStreetMaps data

Examples

 data(travel_matrix_emp_edm)
 summary(travel_matrix_emp_edm$travel_time_p50)
#>    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
#>    0.00   53.00   70.00   70.11   87.00  120.00